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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: "Calm With Horses" Pages 132-167.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On page 136, how does Dympna describe Arm?
(a) "A solid man."
(b) "A harmless culchie."
(c) "A loyal skin."
(d) "A daft lad."

2. What draws Jimmy's attention to Marlene's engagement ring?
(a) The waitress delivers champagne to her table.
(b) Her girlfriend takes pictures of it with her phone.
(c) Marlene deliberately waves it in Jimmy's direction.
(d) Cuculann complains about the cost of it.

3. What causes Bat to feel so nauseous that he rushes to the bathroom, thinking he will throw up?
(a) Tain tells him that she has slept with Heg.
(b) He has had far too much to drink.
(c) Luke brings up the incident at Munroe's.
(d) He sees Luke kiss Tain.

4. What rhetorical purpose is served by explaining how the town council has dealt with the bridge situation?
(a) It portrays the government as a force of oppression.
(b) It demonstrates that the government is not much help in the characters' lives.
(c) It establishes the tone of whimsy that continues with the child pretending to be a king.
(d) It creates dramatic irony because the characters do not know what the reader knows.

5. What physical feature of his own does Jimmy find unattractive?
(a) His feet.
(b) His elbows.
(c) His nose.
(d) His calves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Father Time" always have with him?

2. What piece of information does Arm reveal to Paudi that surprises even Dympna?

3. Why is Val not very surprised that one of the four underage girls who tries to enter the club knows him by name?

4. What is Tug's theory about the two women supposedly sighted with Wayne Clancy?

5. Which piece of diction injects irony into the sentence "...the only regular customers a handful of the town's senior pissheads, intent on drinking thought their pension money by a respectable hour" (40)?

(see the answer key)

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